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Author : John Lang,Jean Lang
Publisher : Litres
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040832170
Author : John Lang
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1435370775
Author : John Lang
Publisher : Tredition Classics
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3849154068
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
Author : John Lang,Jeanie Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Borders Region (Scotland)
ISBN : LCCN:77368865
Author : John Lang,Jean Lang
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783849663797
This is a very readable collection of old Border tales from Chambers and Scott and other sources. Kinmont Willie and Grisell Home, Frank Stokoe and mad Jack Hall of Otterburn, are familiar figures of whom one is always glad to read . The sheep-stealers and highwaymen , illicit distillers and other picturesque ruffians, who abounded on the Borders not so much more than two centuries, have gone forever, but the Border farmer retains his vigorous individuality , and there is still good sport on the Borders, as the authors remind us in their tale - almost too good to be true — of a seventy – pound salmon.
Author : Jean Lang and John Lang
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1512076988
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Author : Jeanie Lang John Lang
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505261066
"[...]morsel! Ere long the local gossip-mongers revelled in a perfect feast of petty scandal. Stories in minute detail spread quickly from mouth to mouth. The eccentricities and shortcomings of the foreign bride were a priceless boon to the scanty population of the district; in castle and in peel tower little else for a time was talked of. To begin with, the mere fact that she was a foreigner, and that neither she nor any of her immediate followers could speak English, told heavily against the lady in the estimation of the countryside. Then, hardly anyone ever saw her (which in itself was an offence, and the cause of still further tattle). She was very little, folk said who professed to be well informed, and her face and hands showed strangely brown against the white robes that she habitually[...]".
Author : John and Jean Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781406815092
Twenty-nine folk tales of the Scottish Borders, some well known, others less so
Author : Jean Lang,John Lang
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547518211
"Stories of the Border Marches" by Jean Lang, John Lang. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Rory Stewart
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Borderlands
ISBN : 9780224097680
'This is travel writing at its best.' Katherine Norbury, Observer An Observer Book of the Year His father Brian taught Rory Stewart how to walk, and walked with him on journeys from Iran to Malaysia. Now they have chosen to do their final walk together along 'the Marches' - the frontier that divides their two countries, Scotland and England. Brian, a ninety-year-old former colonial official and intelligence officer, arrives in Newcastle from Scotland dressed in tartan and carrying a draft of his new book You Know More Chinese Than You Think. Rory comes from his home in the Lake District, carrying a Punjabi fighting stick which he used when walking across Afghanistan. On their six-hundred-mile, thirty-day journey - with Rory on foot, and his father 'ambushing' him by car - the pair relive Scottish dances, reflect on Burmese honey-bears, and on the loss of human presence in the British landscape. On mountain ridges and in housing estates they uncover a forgotten country crushed between England and Scotland: the Middleland. They cross upland valleys which once held forgotten peoples and languages - still preserved in sixth-century lullabies and sixteenth-century ballads. The surreal tragedy of Hadrian's Wall forces them to re-evaluate their own experiences in the Iraq and Vietnam wars. The wild places of the uplands reveal abandoned monasteries, border castles, secret military test sites and newly created wetlands. They discover unsettling modern lives, lodged in an ancient land. Their odyssey develops into a history of nationhood, an anatomy of the landscape, a chronicle of contemporary Britain and an exuberant encounter between a father and a son. And as the journey deepens, and the end approaches, Brian and Rory fight to match, step by step, modern voices, nationalisms and contemporary settlements to the natural beauty of the Marches, and a fierce absorption in tradition in their own unconventional lives.
Author : Philip Rickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Herefordshire (England)
ISBN : 1906663696
Author : Rory Stewart
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Borderlands
ISBN : 0099581892
Brian Stewart was a spy and British patriot, fond of tartan. As his son Rory walks the borderlands between England and Scotland he reflects on their relationship and its political contexts.
Author : Jackson Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472999
Explains the history of England's northern borderlands in the fifteenth century within a broader social, political and European context.
Author : Richard Dobson
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781839751110
When Richard Dobson toured the border county of Herefordshire in 2005, following in the footsteps of Victorian artist Henry Thornhill Timmins, he recorded the experience in his subsequent book In My Own Time. Join him in his latest tour as he describes, in their words, what earlier writers discovered as they travelled through the Welsh Marches, even before the word 'tourism' was first used.
Author : John N. Gray
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1571817395
To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and Brussels. At a time when globalization seems to threaten our sense of place, people of the Scottish borderlands provide a vivid case study of how the being-in-place is central to the sense of self and identity. Since the end of the thirteenth century, people living in the Scottish Border hills have engaged in armed raiding on the frontier with England, developed capitalist sheep farming in the newly united kingdom of Great Britain, and are struggling to maintain their family farms in one of the marginal agricultural rural regions of the European Community. Throughout their history, sheep farmers living in these hills have established an abiding sense of place in which family and farm have become refractions of each other. Adopting a phenomenological perspective, this book concentrates on the contemporary farming practices - shepherding, selling lambs and rams at auctions - as well as family and class relations through which hill sheep fuse people, place, and way of life to create this sense of being-at-home in the hills.